Sighting: Guess who crashed the Pippens' party?

Luis Gomez

Scottie Pippen and Larsa Pippen were overshadowed Tuesday at their own party by another celebrity, but the NBA Hall of Famer and his wife shouldn't feel too bad. The star who stole the spotlight at the Chicago Bulls Charities and Bright Pink benefit in their honor at Studio Paris, Lady Gaga, has the most Twitter followers in the world and would overshadow just about anyone these days.

Gaga, who has seemed to avoid the city's club scene for the most part since boyfriend Taylor Kinney began filming "Chicago Fire" here last year for NBC, sat in a corner booth with Kinney in Paris Club's upstairs lounge. There were so many suit-wearing security guards surrounding their booth it was difficult to see the diminutive "Poker Face" singer. Gaga dined at RPM Italian afterward for the second time in as many months.

Pippen had his own set of security guards at the fundraiser (I counted three-to-four who escorted him to the bathroom each time). But, unlike Gaga, Pippen spent much of the night mingling and dancing. I saw the Bulls legend get down to everything from "Conga" by Miami Sound Machine to "Murder She Wrote" by Chaka Demus & Pliers.

(You might remember Pippen famously had a dance-off with Michael Jordan at his 47th birthday in September at Sunda.)

"Transformers" director Michael Bay relaxed in a corner booth not far from Pippen after Bay's dinner at RPM Italian and visit to Public House. Earlier that day, Bay had lunch at Hub 51. Why was he here? It likely has to do with the next "Transformers," which Mark Wahlberg, the newest star of the franchise, claimed would film in Chicago this summer, according to RedEye.

R&B singer R. Kelly also made an appearance at Studio Paris that night — his birthday. The Chicago native continued the birthday celebration Thursday at The Shrine.

Back to work:"Workaholics" is only halfway through its third season on Comedy Central (new episodes return Wednesday), but the network already announced that it has picked up the raunchy series for a fourth and fifth season. "I never thought 'Workaholics' would be canceled, because I'm an idiot," said Evanston native and "Workaholics" actor and producer Anders Holm by email. "But seriously, we were confident in the show we had created and the ever-growing, awesome fan base. That said, if we had gotten canceled, we would have bounced right back. We'd turned from little bear cubs of the Internet into man-eating kodiaks of TV comedy. We'd tasted human meat, and that's all we were ever gonna eat after that."

The series revolves around three slackers who work together at a telemarketing agency and live together in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Holm and co-stars Blake Anderson and Adam DeVine were mostly unknown before the series, other than a few cult videos they posted on their Mail Order Comedy website (I highly recommend their foul-mouthed "Wizards Never Die" rap video). Thanks to the popularity of "Workaholics," Holm managed to pay off his credit card bill while Season 1 was airing. Two seasons later, he and his co-stars have Comedy Central's full support and 26 more episodes to look forward to.

Does this mean the show — which includes episodes where the characters go on an acid trip — will push even more boundaries in upcoming seasons? "It's just good to know they still like us even though we keep putting naughty things on their network," Holm said of Comedy Central. "As far as taking bigger risks, you haven't seen (the second half of Season 3) yet."